The problem with the ‘herd’ listing is that most of the wordpress users are not that conversant with technical aspects – it is happy with theme authors who give user interfaces and give answers on easy how to questions. That does not necessarily mean that the themes are “Top Theme”. It only means that the vocal of the herd has spoken louder than others.
Automattic themes being a definite exception – technically much superior than others.
These top 5 are the top five for a reason. Beautifully designed. I think you need to customize them a great deal so that they are entirely unique however. There are literally thousands of blogs with the same design.
Like Anup said, a lot of user like me are not very technical, having a simple theme which is fairly good looking and good support is very important. Hybrid and Swift has lots of user and its easy to ask for help.
a theme isn’t a theme to me without brothercake’s drag and drop javascript….or an alternatively coded sidebar item dragger.. I don’t care how pretty the theme is, without draggable sidebar items the theme is crap to me. hahaha
I did mention this on the original thread soliciting inputs – from the list above Suffusion theme gives you that capability, though according to the developer (who regrets providing this capability) it is deliberately set up as an opt-in: the docking boxes script is around 50kb in size, hence a significant addition to your page. Nonetheless you can enable it in your theme options.
Twenty Ten is actually one of the easiest themes to customize, if you know your way around the code. The code is actually thoroughly documented within the files themselves. Otherwise, 2010 Weaver is a great alternative.
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i am using google chrome wordpress themes.
want to replace with new. but, i am lazy to optimizing the new themes. :p
The problem with the ‘herd’ listing is that most of the wordpress users are not that conversant with technical aspects – it is happy with theme authors who give user interfaces and give answers on easy how to questions. That does not necessarily mean that the themes are “Top Theme”. It only means that the vocal of the herd has spoken louder than others.
Automattic themes being a definite exception – technically much superior than others.
functionality and quality let aside, none of them really looks appealing to me.
Don’t knock them until you’ve tried them.
Despite their initial appearance, these are some of the most functional and customizable WordPress themes available today.
Twenty Ten is the only one I’ve ever used, wanna see the others on the list, thanks!
Great themes. I’ve already used Hybrid, it’s pretty nice and simple.
Really i admit the functionality but we should not forget the appearance.
However Thank you for the exerted efforts.
I really like the Hybrid theme, it’s simple looking yet easy to navigate.
I tested it on one of my newly created travel blog, and loving it:)
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These top 5 are the top five for a reason. Beautifully designed. I think you need to customize them a great deal so that they are entirely unique however. There are literally thousands of blogs with the same design.
Like Anup said, a lot of user like me are not very technical, having a simple theme which is fairly good looking and good support is very important. Hybrid and Swift has lots of user and its easy to ask for help.
a theme isn’t a theme to me without brothercake’s drag and drop javascript….or an alternatively coded sidebar item dragger.. I don’t care how pretty the theme is, without draggable sidebar items the theme is crap to me. hahaha
I did mention this on the original thread soliciting inputs – from the list above Suffusion theme gives you that capability, though according to the developer (who regrets providing this capability) it is deliberately set up as an opt-in: the docking boxes script is around 50kb in size, hence a significant addition to your page. Nonetheless you can enable it in your theme options.
i have been used swift, they have complete configuration at they theme option. deserve at number one at this list.
Never heard of Swift and Suffusion. I must be out of the loop. How hard is Twenty Ten to customize?
Twenty Ten is actually one of the easiest themes to customize, if you know your way around the code. The code is actually thoroughly documented within the files themselves. Otherwise, 2010 Weaver is a great alternative.
Thanks for the smokin’ fast reply James. Loved the post. I currently use Thesis and like it but next design I’m thinking about building my own.